The use of control vignettes.
A review of the literature revealed control, or placebo, vignettes are not used in numerous studies that employ vignette-based methodology. This is a serious flaw. The nature of this flaw and its methodological and theoretical importance are outlined in this paper as are procedures and a model for developing control vignettes.
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